Hypertension: Overly important but under-controlled

Hypertension risk prediction: an important but complicated assessment.

Hypertension has been recognized for decades as a major predictor of adverse outcomes, including stroke, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease. These disease risk estimates are the key components for the development and implementation of prevention, treatment, and control guidelines with a general theme of lower blood pressure levels associated w...

Learning Semantic Parsers: An Important but Under-Studied Problem

Computational systems that learn to transform naturallanguage sentences into semantic representations have important practical applications in building naturallanguage interfaces. They can also provide insight into important issues in human language acquisition. However, within AI, computational linguistics, and machine learning, there has been relatively little research on developing systems t...

Not significant but important.

Armstrong and colleagues report the result of a large Phase IIb randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of a preparation of the Bowman Birk Inhibitor compared with an oral placebo in reversing the extent of oral leukoplakia as measured visually by pathology or a battery of intermediate end points. In this editorial, we review the report of this negative clinical trials result to highlight...

The Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations: what’s new, what’s old but still important in 2003

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: an under-recognized but important issue for respiratory therapists.

In this issue the Journal is reprinting the Executive Summary of the new evidence-based standards regarding the management of individuals with alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency.1,2 Upon reading the summary, respiratory therapists (RTs), like all clinicians, will ask themselves several important questions about AAT deficiency, namely: 1. How well do I understand AAT deficiency? 2. What is the...